Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] To Risk Everything21, Re: 18 ft Hobie hulls. Bill Akins.

[Ian Roxborough <irox@ix.netcom.com>]

We normally exchange pics via the moki picture exchange:
http://www.prismnet.com/~moki/subfiles.html

The instructions are at the bottom of the web page.

Ian.

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:26:15 -0500
"Akins" <lakins1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Dear Risk.
> 
> I sent an e mail with a lot of pics of my sub in reply to your below e mail trying to give you an idea of its size and weight. But it appears e mails sent with pictures in them do not go thru with this
> system. It never came up on my e mail as my other replies do. My wetsub is 12 ft long with the fiberglass at various thicknesses at different points. Without the motor, battery pod and canopy on it I estimate it
> weighs possibly 75 to 80 lbs, but that is just a rough estimate, I really haven't weighed it. E mail me at lakins1@tampabay.rr.com Risk and I will e mail you back at your e mail address (don't want the world having my phone number 
> and address you know) with my phone number and address and maybe when you come to clearwater you could come a bit more north to Hudson and drop bye and see the sub in person to determine if you think the 18 ft hobie hulls would be sufficient for it.
> 
> Kindest Regards,
> Bill Akins.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: RiskEverything21@aol.com 
>   To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org 
>   Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:09 AM
>   Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] To Risk Everything21, Re: 18 ft Hobie hulls. Bill Akins.
> 
> 
>   Bill,
> 
>   The boat is on the beach and is still mostly all there. I head up to St. Pete. about once a week and would be happy to come up to Hudson to deliver the boat and check out your sub.
>   I'm planing to fix up my catamaran trailer this weekend and haul my boat up to Clearwater to have some repair work done. Once done my boat will go back on the beach and the trailer will be free to haul the Hobie 18 around.
> 
>   The weight your talking about is really pushing it. The Hobie 18 does not have very much buoyancy in the stern section, and its crossbeams are not very far out of the water. Likely, you could somehow connect your wetsub between the hulls and mount small twin outboards to power it, but the sub would have to be dragged through the water, it could never be pulled clear.
> 
>   What's the size of your sub, in general LxWxH dimensions? I could knock around some ideas to show you before I bring the Hobie hulls up.
> 
>   Risk


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